Papers
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Total Citations
604
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About
Hassan Hariri is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of piezoelectric actuation, miniature robotics, and bio-inspired adhesion systems. He has made substantial contributions to the development of small-scale mobile robots driven by piezoelectric mechanisms, pioneering designs that exploit traveling and standing wave vibrations to achieve efficient, controllable locomotion. His seminal 2013 paper on the traveling wave piezoelectric beam robot (83 citations) laid groundwork for a productive research thread, later extended through 2D planar motion platforms and sophisticated kinematic models for legged robots. Hariri's locomotion studies have addressed fundamental engineering challenges — reducing actuator count while preserving degrees of freedom — resulting in steerable, untethered miniature robots of remarkable versatility. Complementing this actuator-focused research, his highly cited 2017 work on gecko-inspired dry adhesives (100 citations) demonstrates a broader interest in bio-inspired solutions, culminating in a climbing robot that integrates bilayer dry adhesives with dynamic mechanical modeling. Collectively, his publications have accumulated over 500 citations, reflecting meaningful influence on the fields of piezoelectric robotics and micro-scale locomotion. His research offers promising pathways toward practical miniature robots for inspection, exploration, and other applications demanding compact, agile platforms.
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- 2A traveling wave piezoelectric beam robot83 citations · 2013
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- 42-D Traveling Wave Driven Piezoelectric Plate Robot for Planar Motion68 citations · 2018
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